Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

* March 12 – Richard Roberts, ship's captain perished while in command of the SS President ( famous quote: I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub ) ( b. 1803 )

Various other pop icons were parodied in the background, such as the Archie Comics gang playing nude volleyball, various incarnations of James Bond in the ship's casino ( itself an homage to Peter Sellers's famous Casino Royale parody ), a Sierra staffer dressed as Sailor Moon, and porn icon Ron Jeremy walking around naked.

Other permanent exhibits include " Salmon Stakes " ( covering a sweeping history of the salmon fishery ); " Icons and Eye Candy " with exhibits such as a Boeing B-1 seaplane, the Lincoln Towing Co .' s original Pink Toe Truck, and the once famous and now taxidermically stuffed Bobo the gorilla ; numerous ship's figureheads ; and several works of art from now-demolished or remodeled Seattle buildings, including Jean Cory Beall's 1958 mosaic from the old Seattle City Light building ; and numerous large panels by Kenneth Callahan, formerly in the Marine Hospital ( now Pacific Medical Center ).

The ship's final journey to the breaker's yard at Deptford was made famous by Turner in his evocative painting The Fighting Temeraire, now in the National Gallery.

In a much publicized wartime tragedy, the sinking of the USAT Dorchester, the ship's multi-faith chaplains gave up their lifebelts to evacuating seamen and stood together " arm in arm in prayer " as the ship went down.

The movie portrays a scene in which the U-boat sailors kill the Allied merchant crewmen who have survived their ship's sinking, in compliance with naval policy and so that the survivors do not report the U-boat position.

The 23 May sinking of the Kelly was still on Coward's mind, and he decided to use the ship's demise as the basis for his script.

" Uncertainty replaced orderliness, and the ship's sinking marked the beginning of the twentieth century's " unending sequence of disillusionment.

The ship's sinking sets the stage for the entire background of the story, which is based on the subsequent civil war between Matilda ( referred to as Maud in the novel ) and Stephen.

Sa Mean indicated that the Mayaguez should proceed to Ream on the Cambodian mainland, but Captain Miller showed that the ship's radar was not working and pantomimed the ship hitting rocks and sinking.

After pointedly directing his searchlights at the ship's ensign, an invitation to surrender — which was declined — he opened fire, finally sinking the ship.

Almost two years later, in March 2005, a report on the ship's sinking was published by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board.

According to surviving members of the crew-two from the Whydah and seven from Bellamy's other fleet ship destroyed by the storm, the Marianne-at the time of its sinking, the ship carried nearly four and a half to five tons of silver, gold, gold dust, and jewelry, which had been divided equally into 180 fifty-pound bags and stored in chests below the ship's deck.

The Swordfish of the squadron ferried some of the ship's crew off the doomed ship prior to her eventual sinking, and Esmonde was Mentioned in Despatches for his actions on this occasion.

On January 30, 1945, a male refugee desperate to escape from the sinking MV Wilhelm Gustloff, refused to accept the precedence of women and children in the ship's evacuation.

As the ship was sinking, Poon Lim took a life jacket and jumped overboard before the ship's boilers exploded.

However, even when informed of the ship's approaching sinking by the time traveling protagonist, he refuses to save himself and his mission when women and children will perish.

However since the sinking the ship has been salvaged removing some of the cargo, and the ship's propeller.

The " Jolly Boat ", a small lifeboat launched from the SS Anglo Saxon on 21 August 1940 after its sinking by the German auxiliary cruiser Widder, carried the surviving members of the ship's crew West across the Atlantic Ocean for sixty-eight days, before finally landing in Eleuthera.

# At 11: 30 pm on the night of the sinking, the two lookouts spotted what they believed to be haze on the horizon, extending approximately 20 ° on either side of the ship's bow, despite there being no other reports of haze at any time.

The Third Class passengers, mostly from poor backgrounds, show no resentment at their meager accommodation — Katie Gilnagh comments that sleeping four-to-a-room is far more comfortable than the situation she knew in her overcrowded childhood home — but on the night of the sinking, they struggle to evade the efforts of ship's personnel to keep them below decks and away from the lifeboats.

As such, he survived the ship's sinking and later served in the merchant service through World War I and again in World War II, after having been unemployed in the 1930s.

Treves helped save several of his shipmates, including the only ship's officer to survive the sinking, 3rd Wireless Operator John Jackson.

Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Nathan Noyes Withington ( 1828 – 1914 ) and Elizabeth ( Little ) Withington ( 1828 – 1912 ), he was involved with research and editing of publications on certain aspects of the American Revolutionary War but is best known was his extensive genealogical research that included the publication of immigrant ship's passenger lists and the like.

When the Titanic sank in 1912, however, it initially transmitted the distress call CQD DE MGY, MGY being the ship's call sign.

On the night of 14 April 1912, Lightoller commanded the last bridge watch prior to the ship's collision with an iceberg before being relieved by Murdoch.

Later that year Galaxy Quest is revived, starring the original cast, along with Laliari, a female Thermian who chose to stay on Earth as Fred's lover, and with Guy playing the ship's chief of security, " Roc " Ingersol.

The ship's captain, Joseph Pierpont, published his experience in several American newspapers the following year giving an accurate position of Johnston and Sand Island along with part of the reef.

The company trans-shipped 1, 230 slaves from Jamaica to America in the first year, plus any which might have been added ( against standing instructions ) by the ship's captains on their own behalf.

Karina's mother was a dress shop owner and her father was a ship's captain who left the family a year after she was born.

For the next year and a half, Pabst continued to ply the waters of Lake Michigan as a ship's captain, until an accident in December, 1863 led to a change in career.

The commander of the Kearsarge had, while in port at the Azores the year before, turned his warship into a makeshift partial ironclad ; the ship's port and starboard midsection were stepped-up-and-down to the waterline with overlapping rows of heavy chain armor, hidden behind black wooden deal-board covers.

Indeed, during the first year of the Defiants commission at the station, she also serves as the ship's first officer, a situation that only alters upon the arrival of Lt Commander Worf, who assumes the role as the next most senior Starfleet officer of command grade.

During the ship's one year journey the Zentradi attacked constantly, damaging the ship and depleting both its defensive forces and civilian population.

He became a preacher in the Church of Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, after which he apprenticed as a ship's surgeon for one year.

He graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania taking time off during his studies to spend a year at sea as a ship's surgeon for the British East India Company.

Promoted to commander later that year, he managed the ship's gunnery exercises and procedures while Goliath was part of the Channel Fleet stationed in British waters.

The coalition says that Australia sends more than four million live sheep every year to the Middle East, a journey lasting 32 days, during which three sheep share one square metre of space in the ship's hold, and that 100, 000 cattle are sent by truck from Brazil to Lebanon each year, with a reported mortality rate of ten percent.

He names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 ( a combination of his own name, the year he was born and an advertisement found on the box ) and hides him from the ship's officers.

His father, who had been unemployed for over a year, became the ship's first engineer.

He was promoted to ship's clerk for the three year trading voyage on the west coast of British Columbia.

After returning to England that year, he soon sailed for the Caribbean and the Americas employed as a ship's surgeon for the South Sea Company.

In 1914 he worked first as a ship's doctor on the route between Canada, Greenland and the United States, and then in the same year became a field doctor on the Western Front in World War I ; this experience made him a strong opponent of war.